BREAKING: ABU Professor Hyacinth Mbibu Shot Dead in Zaria

The Head of Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello Univeristy Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria, Professor Hyacinth Nong Mbibu was killed by unknown assailants on motorcycle this evening.

The professor was on his way home after attending to his patients at the hospital after 8 p.m when he was attacked.

According to a close associate, with his death Ahmadu Bello University has lost a very hardworking, impartial professor.

A nurse whom he gave a lift in his car at the gate of the hospital was also shot in her arm. She is presently on admission at the hospital.

For about eight years now, the late Professor Mbibu has been among the coordinators of the West African College of Surgeons. Sources at the hospital said that his students are extremely saddened by his departure as they knew him to be a very compassionate and hardworking professor.